Fathers of the Victorians
The Age of Wilberforce

Mr Brown has written an assessment of the Evangelical revival in the Church of England at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

Ford K. Brown (Author)

9780521093484, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 11 January 2009

580 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm, 0.84 kg

Mr Brown has written an assessment of the Evangelical revival in the Church of England at the beginning of the nineteenth century. He makes a number of important points about the Evangelicals: who they were, what they tried to do, how they tried to do it, and what success they had. He establishes how much they made the later Victorian age what it was and also suggest how the movement came to lose its hold on the foremost minds if the age in the third generation. This is a most extraordinary and brilliant introduction to the change of mind between two ages, and it is as interesting to the student of literature and the general reader as to the historian. What real part was played by Wilberforce and the Clapham sect? How is it that the time of Jane Austen is noticeably more refined than that of Fielding, and the age of George Eliot even more so? All these questions are answered in Mr Brown's book; a dazzling performance, and an enlightening one.

Foreword
Part I. War on the Gentile World: 1. Fat Bulls of Bashan
2. The Moses of the Israelites, a Courtier of Pharoah
3. Disciples in Caesar's Household
4. Citizenship in Heaven
5. Sennacherib's Army: The Rally round the Alter
Part II. Labouring for the Spiritual Improvement of Others: 6. Gangrening the Principles of the Country
7. Missionaries to England
8. The Crisis at Cambridge
9. Ten Thousand Compassions and Charities
Part III England in Danger: 10. Sable Subjects, Souls in Darkness
11. Satan's Grand Instrument
12. Frankenstein
or, The Modern Prometheus
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: History [HB]